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The Mainstreaming of American Antisemitism: The Defeat of an Ideal
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R. Amy Elman
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August 11, 2022
Abstract
To recognize the depths of American antisemitism, this article contends we must dispense with the conventional ways we think about it. This requires a rejection of an “American exceptionalism” in which antisemitism happens elsewhere-in other states, political parties, professions, campuses, and communities. Antisemitism so understood occurs only to the unfortunate, in places we don’t frequent, and at the outer edges of the political spectrum. By contrast, I suggest American antisemitism is so pervasive-so utterly mainstream- that it hides in plain sight.
Keywords: 9/11; alt-right; American exceptionalism; Great Replacement Theory; dual loyalty; Holocaust appropriation; Pittsburgh massacre
Published Online: 2022-08-11
Published in Print: 2022-03-01
© 2022 by Academic Studies Press
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Keywords for this article
9/11;
alt-right;
American exceptionalism;
Great Replacement Theory;
dual loyalty;
Holocaust appropriation;
Pittsburgh massacre
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Contents
- Editorial
- Theme Editorial
- THEME ARTICLES: ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS OF RUSSIAN ANTIZIONISM: SOME CONTEXT FOR TODAY’S PROPAGANDA OPERATION AGAINST UKRAINE
- Demonization Blueprints: Soviet Conspiracist Antizionism in Contemporary Left-Wing Discourse
- Durban Antizionism: Its Sources, Its Impact, and Its Relation to Older Anti-Jewish Ideologies
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- The Generalised Antisemitism (GeAs) Scale: A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Antisemitism as Expressed in Relation Both to Jews and to Israel
- How Users of British Media Websites Make a Bogeyman of George Soros
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- Does Academic Freedom Protect Antisemitism?—Part II: Social Media, Antizionism, and the End of Academic Freedom
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